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UTF8 and Bug Fixes – March 5th, 2009
Lots of good fixes and enhancements in this release:
- Added alpha-numeric UTF-8 support for custom categories, subcategories, and community names. International characters should work beautifully now.
- We cleaned up the “share” email so it’s more sleek for more mail clients.
- Goodness for the Flash slideshow:
- We cleaned up the transition between differently-sized images, so we now handle all cases gracefully.
- We gave it a substantial speed boost for galleries with lots of images. The slideshow should start now without any extra lag, even if you have thousands of images in the gallery.
- If you’re viewing the gallery style “slideshow”, and you change sizes, the slideshow is now more responsive and will serve up the chosen size sooner, rather than relying on a cached size.
- We now ignore incorrectly set splash images instead of showing a broken image.
- We fixed a bug where a SmugVault file without an image preview would stall the slideshow.
- We improved the way we handle storage of image bitmap data in memory, so you’ll see significantly less cpu and memory usage on long-running slideshows.
- Fixed a bug with digital download license display in the shopping cart.
- Fixed a bug with scrolling the “Contact a Support Hero” form in small browser windows.
- Made arranging galleries within a sharegroup faster. This was a special request from a customer who had hundreds of galleries in one sharegroup – something we hadn’t considered.
- Cleaned up the “Recent Photo” feed so it no longer shows stale content.
- Fixed an obscure bug with arranging galleries within a category whose name contained an ampersand.
- The bulk pricing tool is much faster now when pricing many galleries at once.
- Fixed a bug with iPhone browsing where if you had a category containing more galleries than would originally load on the first page, clicking on “more albums” caused galleries from other categories to be loaded.
- Fixed another iPhone browsing bug where if you had a category that had only subcategories in it, browsing to the subcategory would show “no public albums found” even if there were public albums there.
- Rotated in some fresh photos for SmugMug’s homepage slideshow.
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Great news on the iPhone fixes. We have a main family category and sub-categories for each month, so this was very nice to have. However, if you browse by Category and have to click “Show more Sub-categories”, it still comes up with a message “No public albums found” and a weirdly formatted partial bullet list of subcategories.
How about adding a photo blog feature to our smug mug sites. This could be on the front page (with a setting to either have a vistor start in the blog or the galleries) with easy click to select inclusion of photos in our smug galleries.
I would love to be able to talk more about what I am doing photographically, post ideas for post processing in Photoshop, etc. This would be a great addition to SmugMug.
Robert
Slideshow fixes also have fixed the problem where videos would freeze it up. Now the preview still is shown. It’s not the same as having the video automatically play, but it’s better than having the whole slideshow break, so yay.
Robert –
I think you might be able to approximate a blog by using the Journal style for a particular gallery. It will certainly allow for commentary, etc.
One approach to what you propose for the home page would be to hide the galleries there and display them on a “vanity page” using this hack: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=355505#post355505
On your home page you could then write a bit of HTML that links to either your Blog (the gallery in Journal style) or your Galleries (vanity page above).
–Darryl
@Chris : Thanks for bringing that to our attention. It’s been fixed since yesterday, I believe.
@Robert: Thanks for the feedback. There are so many great blogging platforms already out there, I think for the time being we’re focusing on meshing better with existing platforms rather than building our own. We’ll keep your request in mind, though.
@Darryl: Thanks for pointing that out!
We desperately would like you to add the feature that allows people to receive an email when a certain SmugMug site/gallery is updated with new pics/movies. This would enable people to follow the updates rather than looking for new content. The feature would allow people to enter their email address and select the frequency of the updates (instantly, daily, weekly, monthly). The email that would be sent would indicate the number of pictures and the gallery name of the new pics/movies.
This would be a GREAT feature for those of us that use our SmugMug site to share pics of our kids with grandparents, family members and friends.
Thanks
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